# tache
## English
### Etymology 1

Clipping of moustache or mustache.

#### Alternative forms

* tash (misspelling)
* 'tache

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɑːʃ/, Rhymes: -ɑːʃ
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /tæʃ/, Rhymes: -æʃ

#### Noun

tache (plural taches)
* (informal) Moustache, mustache.

##### Synonyms

* stache, 'stache

### Etymology 2

From French tache (“a spot”). See tetchy.

#### Alternative forms

* tatch

#### Noun

tache (plural taches)
* (now rare) A spot, stain, or blemish.
** 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:the herynge or seynge of any vice or euyl tache
** 1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, page 95:Alone I cared for our mother who did little else but stare at taches on floor and ceiling.

### Etymology 3

See tack (“a kind of nail”).

#### Noun

tache (plural taches)
* Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.
** 1611, King James Bible, “xxvi.vi”, in Exodus‎, Barker edition:And thou shalt make fiftie taches of gold, and couple the curtaines together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

### Anagrams

* Teach, chate, cheat, he-cat, teach, theca

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French tache, from Old French tache, taiche, taje (“mark, spot, stain”), from Vulgar Latin *tacca, *tecca, from Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌽𐍃 (taikns, “mark, sign”), from Proto-Germanic *taiknaz, *taikną (“sign, mark”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show”). Influenced by forms related to Frankish *stakjan, *stakkijan (“to stick, attach”) and Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌺𐍃 (staks, “mark”). See attacher. For levelling and shortening of diphthong ai in taikns compare Old French hanter, hangart, etc. Cognate with Old High German zeihhan (“sign, symbol, feature”), Old English tācn (“sign, marker”). More at token.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taʃ/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: tâche (France)
* Rhymes: -aʃ

### Noun

tache f (plural taches)
* blot, stain or smear
* spot; more or less stain-like mark of a different color
* (skin) blotch, mark
* moral depravation
* annoying or despicable person

#### Derived terms

* être tache
* faire tache
* faire tache d’encre
* faire tache d’huile
* taché
* tache de naissance
* tache de rousseur
* tache de vin
* tache solaire
* tacheté

#### Related terms

* tacher
* tacheter

### Further reading

* “tache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French attacher (“attach”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taʃe/

### Verb

tache
* attach

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* teche, tesche, taiche, taje

### Etymology

Uncertain. Two origins are proposed:
* From Vulgar Latin *tacca, *tecca, from Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌽𐍃 (taikns, “mark, sign”), from Proto-Germanic *taiknaz, *taikną (“sign, mark”).
* From the verb tachier, from Latin taxāre (“to feel, touch”).

### Noun

tache oblique singular, f (oblique plural taches, nominative singular tache, nominative plural taches)
* mark; stain

#### Descendants

* Middle French: taiche
** French: tache
* → Middle English: tach, tache, tasch, tasche, tasshe
** English: tache, tatch
** Scots: tache
** ⇒? English: tetchy

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (tache)

## Portuguese
### Verb

tache
* inflection of tachar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtat͡ʃe/ [ˈt̪a.t͡ʃe]
* Rhymes: -atʃe
* Syllabification: ta‧che

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from tachar.

#### Noun

tache m (plural taches)
* (Mexico) a line or lines written to cross out something

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

tache
* inflection of tachar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “tache”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10